Area All-State
Ana Shore
Every year at the end of January, a select few music students travel to Ithaca College to rehearse and perform a concert. It starts out with hopeful musicians from all over New York sending applications into NYSSMA board members in October. These applications have all the scores of past solos on a particular instrument or voice part and the level of the difficulty of each solo. After about a month of deliberation, the board members inform the music teachers of the students selected. For Area All-State, the musicians are selected from their zone in the state, of which there are 15. Homer, part of Cortland County, is in Zone 3 with five other counties.
This Friday and Saturday, twelve Homer High School students are heading out to Ithaca. The choir members are Kate Halstead, Rachel Crompton, Robin Baumeister, Sarah Denkenberger, Zach Sovocool, Will Loiselle, Ellie Anderson, and Hanna Whalen. The band members are Julia Brazo (french horn), Nate Ulrich (trumpet), Erin Stafford (tuba), and Ana Shore (tuba). Congratulations to all these musicians for their hard work!
